The constitutional reality is that, if a government official is clearly placed within the Executive Branch, that official serves at the pleasure of the President, and can be fired “at will.” That history has had a recent illustration: earlier this month, the federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., struck down part of a law by which Congress created a single director to lead the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau – a law that specified that the director could be removed by the President only “for cause.”
The appeals court simply deleted that phrase from the law, thus making the agency’s head subject to being fired by the President for any reason, or no reason at all. (The government has not yet indicated whether it will challenge that ruling in further appeals, perhaps to the Supreme Court.)
Apparently, Luca Brasi – I mean Schiller, was sent to personally hand-deliver the letter notifying Comney he was fired. Also apparently, El Trumpo didn’t know or didn’t care that Comey was actually in Los Angeles at the time.
No sign that Schiller is actually being considered for the FBI post. At least there’s that.
I think this is finally the thing that will take Trump down. He’s on his last legs. We’re about to turn the corner on getting rid of him. The next 6 months will be telling.
Who is going to stop the president from firing an FBI director? That’s a serious question. If no one can stop him, then the director severs at his pleasure.
I’m happy someone noticed! (I think there was some Cheney and Rumsfeld in there, too, but was too lazy to look up who said what when.)
If the polls look like the GOP will lose seats in special elections or 2018 then they absolutely would throw Trump under the bus and impeach him so they could point at Trump’s cabal and say “look it wasn’t the entire GOP, it was just Trump’s cronies”.
Repeat after me: “I am not Trump’s defense attourney. I am not Trump’s defense attourney. I am not Trump’s defense attourney.” For christ’s sake, not even Edward Snowden thinks this is a good move, and Comey tried to put Snowden behind bars.
“This FBI Director has sought for years to jail me on account of my political activities. If I can oppose his firing, so can you.”
No, it’s not a fixed term. The ten year term is a maximum. The purpose of the law is to protect the FBI from becoming a personality cult under a permanent director, as happened under J. Edgar Hoover, not to protect the director from interference by the president. The president can’t keep a director for longer than ten years (without a change in the law, as was passed for Robert Mueller), but he can still fire the director at any time. Cite:
I’m afraid Efrem has been dead for three years. While that probably wouldn’t stop the America-hating shitstain currently defiling the Oval Office, his not showing up for the confirmation hearings could be a stumbling block.
There’s always Stephanie. That would bolster the America-hating shitstain’s gender-equality cred, and at the same time, they could get Pierce Brosnan to do the heavy lifting…
Stipulating this–and I’m not sure it’s accurate–but stipulating what you say, CIRCUMSTANCES ARE STILL DIFFERENT, and it’s obnoxious to try to score “TEH LIBRULS ARE HYPOCRITES” points right now.
